Earlier this month, at the Large Animal Research Station in Fairbanks, state wildlife biologist Tom Seaton was shaking feed pellets onto a lush pasture. At the sound of the feed hitting the ground, a ...

Wood bison are a larger subspecies of the plains bison found in the Lower 48. They have larger, blockier humps and shorter, pointier beards. They’re the largest native land mammals found in North ...

FAIRBANKS — Freed from pens, at least nine of the 100 newly released Alaska wood bison walked onto rotting ice this month and drowned. As bad as the deaths might sound, they are within the range that ...

FAIRBANKS — At 2,000 pounds, an adult male wood bison is North America’s largest land mammal. It dwarfs even the mighty moose, which grow up to about 1,600 pounds. These giant herbivores have been ...

A bison on Antelope Island in Utah. There were once 60 million bison in North America. Today, just over 20,000 live in conservation herds in the U.S., according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Overview: The decline and fall of the bison empire / Geoff Cunfer -- Reviewing an iconic story: environmental history and the demise of the bison / Dan Flores -- People and bison in the ancient past - ...